Solar Dehydrators

So how has man preserved food for thousands of years? Native Americans used to hang strips of meat on sticks to dry in the sun. Solar dryers are a wonderful way to preserve your meat, berries, herbs, and vegetables. Currently we have an electric dryer that has a very small capacity and it takes a long time to dry food (several days). For the most part, we have stuck to fruit, tomatoes and peppers for drying, but this summer I plan on building a large capacity solar dehydrator that hopefully will be able to preserve vegetables and jerky as well. The link below is to an article on what I think is the best dehydrator I have seen so far. It costs a couple hundred dollars to build, should last years and is totally free to operate.

http://homepower.com/article/?file=HP69_pg24_Scanlin

I will let you know how construction of this goes later this Spring.